Aaron Mark Brown
Bio
Aaron Mark Brown has been writing, recording & performing music for over 15 years, most recently with The Invasion.
Aaron writes jazz & folk inspired indie rock. 'Realities of Grandeur' (out March 2012) will be the first album released under his own name. His lyrics cover prime numbers, love, death, and cultivation.
Aaron also scores short films and owns a sustainable arts store. He has 1 wife, 4 kids, 11 rabbits, and 1 cinnamon conure... for the record. His neighbors complained about the chickens, so they're gone (for now).
Aaron Mark Brown
Lyrics
Birds in the Night
Every night I dream in black and whiteAnd then I paint-by-number to color it in
With all of my friends
See them dancing...
One, two, three, five, seven, and eleven
Thirteen, seventeen, nineteen sweet little birds
They don't say a word
But I hear them singing
"Some things have always been
And some things will never, never be"
Each night I know they light upon my mind
Though I've never seen their melody
Invincible
I am invincibleI am invincible
You can kill me, but you can't hurt me
I am impossible
I am impossible
You can ask anyone… just ask anyone
I have things that can't be owned
And I own things that can be stolen
I am invincible
I am invincible
You can kill me, but you can't hurt me
Diminishing Returns
You've been working for a long timeHoled up in your precious lab
Engineering silver bullets
Easy answers such as that
We won't have to use our legs now
We won't have to use our arms
Or know how to feed our families
How to keep them safe from harm
We'll just step into your office
And we'll leave the world behind
We don't eat the things we grow here
Because they're only in our Mind
You receive a hero's welcome
All the people step in line
Mistaking progress for evolution
Easy money, but not mine
Oh, no, sir…
I'm not coming out to meet you
I'm not waving from the yard
I'll be canning in the kitchen
I'll be shoveling in the barn
I'll be out there doing simple things
That simple people do that make them people
We're not coming out to meet you
We're not going to meet the train
We'll be sweating in the sunshine
We'll be singing in the rain
We'll be men and women
We're old folks and children
All together, come the weather…
We'll be stopping for a stranger
We'll touch the dying and the dead
Getting by without the experts
We'll be baking our own bread
We'll be out there doing simple things
That simple people do that make them people
To the Death
Where did you go?Why did you leave?
What makes me think that it's you and not me?
They're wasting their money
I'm wasting their time
'Cause I need a love of a deeper kind
It's good to feel useful
Not to feel used
But that's what you get when you are what you do
They figured me in
I figured it out
And I believe I can live without
But like a well-trained dog I come a bounding back
I drink my coffee down and have a heart attack
I've been going any way the wind blows
Hoping that it won't show
Living 'cause I'm too young to die
Where did you go?
Why did you leave?
What makes me think that it's you and not me?
I'm looking for meaning
I'm looking for cash
Need a weaker mind and a stronger back
What did you say?
What does it mean?
What are these lines that I'm reading between?
You're breaking my will
You're breaking my heart
And I believe that's a pretty good start
But like a well-trained dog I come a bounding back
I drink my whiskey down and have a heart attack
I've been going any way the wind blows
Hoping that it won't show
Living 'cause I'm too young to die
It's an uphill fight to live a simple life
Working with my hands and sleeping with my wife
But I do believe we're gonna make it
Not content to fake it
Holding out for something that's real
Realities of Grandeur
You can learn from anyoneOr be an autocrat in the vacuum of space
You can be a simple man
Or you can be a complicated animal
You can wax what you are
Or you can wane what you wanted to be
You can drink the water here
But you better have some wine if you want to survive
'Cause the one thing will kill you
But the other one will keep you alive
The one thing is true
But the other is a bold-faced lie
This one will make you smaller
This one will make you grow
This one's a poison apple
This one will melt in the snow
This one will slay you
This one ressurect you
This one will teach you what you need to know
The one thing will kill you
But the other one will keep you alive
The one thing is true
But the other is a bold-faced lie
You can be impossible
Or you can be highly unlikely instead
You can be a son of God
Or you can be a complicated animal
You can be as tall as you are
Or you can be as tall as you are
We've all got our reasons
We've all got something to say
Still, the one thing will kill you
But the other one will keep you alive
The one thing is true
But the other is a bold-faced lie
Sometimes it makes you happy
Sometimes it makes you cry
But if it's kisses you want
Then you've got to stop planting lies
How to Bake Bread
When I was just a little boyMy grandmother taught to me
This simple recipe...
You don't need an octopus
You don't need a gun
You don't need a well-marked grave
Or a setting sun
You don't need an easy chair
You don't need a car
Your own two legs will take you
Half as fast but twice as far
You don't need to win this fight
You don't need a divorce
You don't need something sweeter
Or a second course
You need grain, oil, and water
You need fire and a friend
You don't need salt, yeast, or spice
Though I will confess they're nice if you can get 'em
You don't need to feed the whole town
But hungry people come from all around if you let 'em
You don't need to win this fight
You don't need a divorce
You don't need something sweeter
Or a second course
You need grain, oil, and water
You need fire and a friend
We'll Sleep in the Morning Sun
Oh, my grandad rose at morningAnd my daddy rose at noon
I rise at evening time
But morning will be here soon
When that old sun comes a knocking
I'll keep lying next to you
I don't care what he says
There's nothing better we've got to do
And we'll sleep in the bright, warm, morning sun
We'll sleep in the bright, warm, morning sun
We'll put out all the fires
And we'll smash the clocks to gears
We won't know night from day
And we won't know day from year
Oh, my grandad died at morning
And my daddy died at noon
I'll die at evening time
But morning will be here soon
And we'll sleep in the bright, warm, morning sun
We'll sleep in the bright, warm, morning sun
Like Wine
My baby drinks earth and she eats sunshineHer favorite colors are green and brown
If she ain't sleeping, Lord, she's dreaming
And I'll be damned if you an slow her down
She don't run hot and cold
But she runs a dozen flavors of hot
Yeah, she burns like wine
Sweet, sweet wine
She burns like wine
She cuts my hair, she cuts my teeth now
on doing things that can't be done
'Cause she sees things you cannot see now
And she sings songs that can't be sung
There is a fire that can't be quenched, no
Not from the earth or from the sun
This is the flame that youll find burning
Inside the furnace of our love
She don't run hot and cold
But she runs, she runs a rainbow of hot
Yeah, she burns like wine
Sweet, sweet wine
She burns like wine
Lazy Fox
Lazy fox, you don't build or sowYou just sit and wait for spring to come again
You're winter thin
It seems a sin, but you sit and wait
For hapless prey to stray along
Lazy jay, you don't fly away
You just sit and wait to be struck by a song
Then you sing along
Not counting on the strength of God
But on the weakness of your foe
On mid-winter's morn the two meet alone
In field and on fence there's a cold, sideways glance
Then feather and fur are all ablur
And beak, and tail... it's a greedy fox
Who swallows more than he can chew
Lazy fox, you don't move or stir
You just lay and wait for spring to come again
And you'll turn then
Back into earth leaving skull and bone
The only sign you ever were
Old People
Old people, won't you please say helloto my friends who haved died?
Tell them I'll be along shortly
Old people, won't you give my regards
to those folks on the other side?
Tell them I'll be along
We're all the same age when we're out of time
When I was eight years old my brother was half my age
Presently, he's seven-eighths
But we're all the same age when we're out of time
Old people, won't you please say hello
to my friends who haved died?
Tell them I'll be along shortly
Old people, won't you give my regards
to those folks on the other side
As I complete my one and only trip down the slide?
I Will Rise
I will lie down where the sun is settingI will sleep in this house, not my home
I will rise up where the sun is rising
And I know I won't rise up alone
I will rise
I will rise
I go walking and hear people talking
Singing in a tongue they do not know
I will rise
I will rise
Aaron Mark Brown
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